The year 2000-2001 was a strong year for research concerning the West. In areas as diverse as dance, theater, mass communications, geography, rhetoric, architecture, and art history, scholars are expressing a lively and creative interest in the West, be it an actual, physical stance or a state of mind. The sheer number of theses and dissertations in disciplines traditionally related to western American literature guarantee a rich and fertile background for scholars to explore. A quick look at total studies over the last three years reveals just how strong this year’s research growth is:

Masters Level

Doctoral Level

Year 1999

Year 2000

Year 2001

Year 1999

Year 2000

Year 2001

43

68

127

188

80

310

One possibility for some of this tremendous growth concerns the fact that Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) is totally online, with many libraries, including Merrill Library at Utah State University, subscribing to the online service rather than keeping up with hard copies; hence, all of my research in this area is now done online. Given the nature of the DAI’s program, titles of theses and dissertations are crosslisted among disciplines to enhance research, bringing to light titles that otherwise might be overlooked. For example, in the past I have discovered few theses related to western American literature in DAI categories of theology, political science, law, or ancient languages. However, crosslisting reveals new connections in various disciplines, allowing a broader selection to be made. Yet enhanced research cannot completely account for the growth. I really believe that it was a strong and productive year and especially strong, I may note, in Canada, where many more titles emerged than usual.

Surveying these titles reveals that an emphasis on a multifaceted West is the major research trend this year, as it has consistently been over the past few years. The American dream, traditionally embodied by groups of White settlers moving west, has extended to include many who typically had little hope of ever succeeding in achieving it. For instance, once again Native American issues take the lead in all research topics, comprising over 150 different areas. At some distance behind but still comprising a significant proportion are titles reflecting Chicano/a or Mexican American interests. Other ethnic groups are also reflected in this multifaceted approach to research in the West; these include for the first time a number of studies concerning Japanese settlement in the West, along with German as well as Sicilian immigrants. Of interest also is a number of studies relating to Mormons in the West, enough to note a definite presence.

This multiethnicity is reflected even in studies that focus on single authors. Of approximately thirty-eight different authors explored, seventeen represented minority groups. Though once again Willa Cather was well in the forefront of individual authors, with seventeen different theses devoted to her work, both Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros were not far behind. Other studies include such authors as N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Carter Revard, D’Arcy McNickle, Americo Paredes, Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Mourning Dove, and Zitkala-Sa, aptly illustrating this interest in diversity. Of the more traditional, so-called mainstream authors in western American literature, Mark Twain and James Fenimore Cooper received the most attention, with seven studies apiece, closely followed by Jack London. In contrast to previous years, John Steinbeck appeared only once.

As might be expected with such diversity, a number of issues examined revolve around topics like alienation, repression, revolution, isolation, identity, or displacement, as in From Revolution to Evolution: A Study in Alienation and Oppression of Mexican-American Women through Their Literature or Beyond “Obasan”? Ethnic Idealism, Victimization, and the Problem of Canonizing Japanese Canadian Literature. In addition to race, gender was also an issue, in many forms, with domesticity (Public and Private Women of Virginia City, Nevada: The Role of Domesticity as a Means of Anonymity and Attention), silence, and feminism being just a few of the key words in the titles. Land—sense of place, contested space, care for the land—was also a significant part of this year’s research, including studies of works by such environmental authors as Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, and Barry Lopez. In contrast to years past, Ed Abbey was the subject of only one study while Rick Bass appeared for the first time. More traditional topics also made a comeback with several focusing on ranching, cowboys, or outlaws, as in Cowboys Crashing: The Beat Generation and the American Western Outlaw or Women of the West as Outlaws: A Study of Sylvie Fisher of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Marian Forrester of Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady. At the same time, humor also cropped up: as a topic itself in Solemn Laughter: Humor as Subversion and Resistance in the Literature of Simon Ortiz and Carter Revard and also creatively used in such titles as Good Vibrations: Southern California Surf Culture.

All in all, it appears to have been a good year for research in western American literature, one resonant with the excitement and energy of a new century, a new millennium. Scholars in this field are exploring hitherto unidentified territory and making innovative connections in regions yet untapped—appropriately fitting, one must say, for the successors to those early pioneers who first set foot in both the geographical as well as the literary West.

[Editor’s note:
All entries in this listing have been taken from Dissertation Abstracts International. We have made no attempt to change the sentence-style capitalization of the titles to headline capitalization, the latter of which we normally use in Western American Literature. Any misspellings of names as well as any inconsistencies in format are also DAI’s. Entries are listed by title, author, and institution.]

Between two worlds: The struggles of Latinas in Eurocentric American society in selected works of Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros.
by Garcia, Melissa Leal, MA
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - KINGSVILLE, 2000.

How to name a desert: John C. Fremont and the literary landscape.
by Leeder, Kimberly Lynn, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000.

Women of the west as outlaws: A study of Sylvie Fisher of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Marian Forrester of Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady.
by Le Roux, Rachelle, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

Expanding the American literary canon: A comparative analysis of the Navajo Nightway and Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.
by Lightfoot, Kody Louise, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2000.

EgPn-440: A Late Prehistoric bison pound on the northwestern plains (Alberta).
by Tischer, Jennifer Christine, MA
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2000.

Gold rush commercial characteristics: An examination of ‘fireproof’ storefronts and the Blood, Brother and Company mercantile in Elizabethtown, California.
by Lasell, Rebecca Renee, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000

Art History

Concepts of spirituality in the works of Robert Houle and Otto Rogers with special consideration to images of the land.
by Afnan, Nooshfar (Bianca), MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2001.

‘An administered people’: A contextual approach to the study of bureaucracy, records-keeping and records in the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, 1755-1950.
by Hubner, Brian Edward, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

Climatic risk or social progress: The historiography of ranching in southern Alberta.
by Oetelaar, Delilah Joy, MA
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2000.

Making Canadians: Citizenship education and the Manitoba public school curriculum, 1916-1927.
by Rempel, Gwen Louise, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

Origin of the spaces: A Darwinian poetics of identity transformation and the long prairie poem.
by Lamont, Dougald Francis, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

A raven among the raintrees: The plight and recovery of native foster children in April Raintree and Keeper’N Me (Beatrice Culleton, Garnet Raven).
by McKenzie, Gayle Anne, MA
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2000.

‘Living words’: Tracing processes of national subject formation and racialization in Japanese Canadian life writing.
by Quirt, Margaret Christine, MA
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (CANADA), 2000.

Comparative Literature

The search for a voice: American women of color in literature and life (Alice Walker, Jessica Hagedorn, Ana Castillo, Paula Gunn Allen).
by Lee, Judith Ernestine, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2000.

Rice bowls and resistance: Cultural persistence at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, 1942-1945.
by Branton, Nicole Louise, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2000.

Spirituality, holism, and healing among the Lakota Sioux: Towards an understanding of indigenous medicine.
by Ellerby, Jonathan H., MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

Ethnobotany and land management among the Duckwater Shoshone (Nevada).
by George, Janice Marie, MA
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000.

Cultural mentoring for American Indian students: The power of the drum and Southern Plains social songs in a southern Arizona classroom.
by Martin, Joseph James, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2000.

Grupo Para Mamas: An ethnography of an immigrant women’s group in Houston (Texas).
by Muniz, Deborah L., MA
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 2000.

Indigenous cultural tourism: An examination of process and representation in Canada and Australia.
by Parry, Gwyneth Esther Myfanwy, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

Humour is good medicine: The Algonquin perspective on humour in their culture and of outsider constructions of Aboriginal humour.
by Poirier, Michelle A., MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

From advocacy to ethnology: Frank Speck and the development of early anthropological projects in Canada, 1911-1920.
by Pulla, Siomonn, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

The Metis: A unique culture created by the Canadian-French explorers and the Native American woodland peoples.
by Rynski, Barbara Mae, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2000.

Healing the body/healing the cosmos: The role of the indigenous healer in seventeenth-century Mexico as seen in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629.
by Seltzer-Kelly, Deborah L., MA
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000.

A conceptual framework for the development of a sustainability strategy by the Metis of northern Saskatchewan.
by Stanley, Lawrence William, MA
ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

The impact of 110 years of United States Indian policy legislation on ten aspects of reservation-based childrearing.
by Wilson, Betty Lee, MA
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, 2000.

Comparing themes of polygamy in Mormon women’s public and personal writings as found in the ‘Woman’s Exponent’ and their diaries during the Edmunds Act, the Edmunds-Tucker Act, and the Manifesto.
by Johnson Bennion, Daniela Dorothy, MS
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Victoria’s First Peoples Festival: Embodying Kwakwaka’wakw history in presentations of music and dance in public spaces (British Columbia).
by Harrison, Klisala Rose, MA
YORK UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

The other side of the lake: Stories of Garr Ranch residents, Antelope Island, from 1930 to 1981 (Utah).
by Summers, Wynne L., MS
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Geography

‘Land of which the savages stood in no particular need’: Dispossessing the Algonquins of South-Eastern Ontario of their lands, 1760-1930 (Joseph Whiteduck, Jr.).
by Huitema, Marijke Elizabeth, MA
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON (CANADA), 2001.

Victoria’s First Peoples Festival: Embodying Kwakwaka’wakw history in presentations of music and dance in public spaces (British Columbia).
by Harrison, Klisala Rose, MA
YORK UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

Cultural mentoring for American Indian students: The power of the drum and Southern Plains social songs in a southern Arizona classroom.
by Martin, Joseph James, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2000.

Mexican American Baptists’ dependency on Anglo Baptist institutions in south Texas: A case study in Bee County.
by Carrera, Richard, MA
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN, 2000.

The final five months of the American Indian Wars: An analysis of the second phase of the Geronimo campaign, March 30-September 3, 1886 (Arizona, Mexico).
by Courtney, Bradley Glen, MA
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, 2000.

Women in the anti-Japanese movement in California, 1900-1924.
by Johnson, Randa-Noel, MA
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Water and the transformation of a bioregion: The politics and environmental effects of increased water use in the Las Vegas Valley, 1907-1997 (Nevada).
by Kaup, John Thomas, MA
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Spanish exploration in the North Pacific and its effect on Alaska place names.
by Luna, Albert Gregory, MA
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS, 2000.

Domestic spheres: Home and homeland in nineteenth-century United States domestic fiction. [Considers Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins in its discussion.]
by Short, Gretchen Kay, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, 2000.

Through the negative: The relationship between the photographic image and the written word in nineteenth-century American literature (Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville).
by Williams, Megan Rowley, PhD
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

1848 and the expansion of the American literary imagination. [This study examines the significance of the Mexican American War on Anglo and Mexican American literary production.]
by Aleman, Jesse, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 1999.

Envisioning American women: The roads to communal identity in novels by women of color.[Includes the works of Paula Gunn Allen, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Sandra Cisneros.]
by Mardberg, Maria Kristina, PhD
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET (SWEDEN), 1998.

Caroline M. Kirkland: A literary life.
by Bouma, Jana A., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2000.

Writing wilderness: Conserving, preserving, and inhabiting the land in nineteenth-century American literature.
by Brault, Robert Joseph, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

Modern time and the romantic historical imagination in nineteenth-century American literature (Catharine Beecher, George Bancroft, William Alcott, James Fenimore Cooper, Emma Willard).
by Allen, Thomas Michael, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2000.

The art of truth: The architecture of 19th-century American allegory (Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville).
by Bennett, Gary Brian, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS, 2000.

Liquor and learning: Temperance and education in Lydia Sigourney, David Belasco, and Willa Cather.
by DeFoe, Gerard Francis, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK, 2000.

Wilderness and Wall Street: Privilege, community, and restraint in literature of the New York frontier. [Reconsiders the role of literature in promoting frontier individualism at the expense of frontier community.]
by D’Errico, Jon Mark, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 2000.

Crossings: Conflicting voices in Cormac McCarthy’s border trilogy.
by Hada, Kenneth Eugene, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2000.

Heaven and earth: The integration of faith and science in American nature writing. [Examines works by Annie Dillard, Rick Bass, John Hay, and Terry Tempest Williams, among others.]
by Hunt, Richard G., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000.

Invocations of battle: The literary nationalisms of the war between the United States and Mexico, 1846-1848 (William H. Prescott, Charles E. Averill, James Russell Lowell, Guillermo Prieto, Nicolas Pizarro).
by Rodriguez, Jaime Javier, PhD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2000.

The American dream in literature: Women and ethnics need not apply.
by Todd, Diane M., PhD
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2000.

American nonfoundationalism’s triple play: Emerson to Twain to Pynchon (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Thomas Pynchon).
by Millard, William Baird, PhD
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK,
2000.

The return of the native repressed: Indian presence in early American literature (Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Henry David Thoreau, William Apess).
by Moon, Randall Brent, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, 2000.

Reading the marketplace: The culture of the book in nineteenth-century America. [Includes a consideration of Mark Twain’s works.]
by Wadsworth, Sarah Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

Keep these words until the stones melt: Language, ecology, war and the written land in nineteenth century United States-Indian relations.
by Kalter, Susan Mary, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, 1999.

‘Landscapes of healing: The sick self and ecological communities in recent American prose.
by Berry, Kenneth Wesley, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, 2000.

Intimate reverberations’: Representations of the woman reading in nineteenth-century American women’s texts.
by Hayward, Dawn Leslie, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 1999.

Villainous vagrants, hard-travelin’ hoboes, and sisters of the road: The figure of the tramp in American literature, 1873-1939. [Includes a discussion of Jack London’s work.]
by Photinos, Christie Elizabeth, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, 2000.

‘True statements’: Women’s narratives of the American frontier experience.
by Stefani, Victoria Lee, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, 2000.

Seeking refuge: Western American women writers of the Cold War Era, 1949-1994.
by Turner, Anne Marie, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 2000.

The white man’s bomb: Race and nuclear apocalypse narrative in American culture. [Includes discussions of Jack London and Leslie Marmon Silko.]
by Sharp, Patrick Berton, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, 1999.

Jewels in net: The American Buddhist poetics of Gary Snyder.
by Bartlett, Karen Joy, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 2000.

Border literatures in twentieth-century American literature: Retheorizing spaces of betweenness. [Includes discussion of Cormac McCarthy.]
by Hickman, Trenton Larry, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK, 2000.

Puritan imperialisms: The limits of identity and the Indian missions of Massachusetts Bay.
by Jalalzai, Zubeda, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2000.

Grounds for fiction: Making space for local community in United States literary regionalism, 1885-1940 (Hamlin Garland, Abraham Cahan, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston).
by Joseph, Philip, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2000.

‘Most inhuman barbarities’: A rhetorical analysis and codification of images of Native Americans in select nineteenth-century informational texts written for children.
by Mercer, Gayle Marie, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000.

Records of degradation: The functions of the Indian captivity genre, 1682-1871.
by Schultz, Richard Hugh, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK, 2000.

Catching the Native dreams: Interpreting American Indian dream stories.
by Sharma, Anand, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2000.

‘Speaking a word for nature’: The ethical rhetoric of American nature writing.
by Sumner, David Thomas, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, 2000.

Red and white and blue: Whiteness and identity in American Indian fiction.
by Andrews, Scott David, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, 2000.

People-as-garbage: A metaphor we live by. Storytelling as composting in six novels: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres, and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina.
by Brown, Cecily Francesca, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

Cowboys crashing: The Beat Generation and the American Western outlaw.
by Hemmer, Kurt Richard, PhD
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

(Un)veiling American imperialism: The co-contextualization of early twentieth-century Jewish American and Native American literature (Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Charles Eastman, Zitkala-Sa).
by Chiarello, Barbara, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2000

Liberating domesticity: The American road narrative in film and fiction.
by Elliot, Lyn Elizabeth, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 2000.

Embodying the public sphere: The Mexican question and elite Mexican American literary and political culture at the turn of the century.
by Rivera, John-Michael, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

The West that ever was: The argument with cultural gender expectations in Larry McMurtry’s Old West novels.
by Rudloff, Lynnora Holleman, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

Américo Paredes’ concept of performance and the cultural legacy of the American Southwest.
by Lopez-Morin, Jose Rosbel, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2001.

The evolving self: Postmodern coming-of-age novels by women writing in the United States. [Includes a discussion of Cisneros’s House on Mango Street.]
by Rose, Karen L., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2001.

Within the realm of possibility: Magic and mediation in Native American and Chicano/a literature.
by Baria, Amy Greenwood, PhD
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL
COLLEGE, 2000.

From primeval forest to machine in the garden: Narratives of nature in the Old Northwest.
by Hogue, Beverly Jean, PhD
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Loving the mother: Feminine spiritual spaces in the writings of Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Tina DeRosa, and Carole Maso.
by Lanza, Carmela Delia, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2000.

Leaving ‘home’: Travel and the politics of literacy in United States women’s fiction and autobiography, 1898--1988 (Kate Drumgoold, Zitkala-Sa, Anzia Yezierska, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Lee Smith).
by Wright, Elizabeth Jane, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2000.

Cross roads: Native American writers confront Christianity.
by Waters, Richard K., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2001.

Writing the Western home: Domestic ideology in women’s literature of the American West (Caroline Kirkland, Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson).
by Adamcyk, Valerie Therese, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON, 2001.

Mark Twain: A muse for Generation X.
by Fowler, Gregory W., PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2000.

The flatland factor: A visual history of the Llano Estacado, 1890-1990 (Texas).
by Robinson, Scott Elmon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON, 2000.

Telling stories about Mormons and Indians.
by Taylor, Lori Elaine, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2000.

Indian style: Primitivism, nationalism, and cultural sovereignty in twentieth-century American art.
by Anthes, William Louis, Jr., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

Santos de Santa Fe: Mediators of family and faith, culture and place.
by Moore, Patricia Elaine, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2000.

Erosion, extraction, reciprocation: An ethno/environmental history of the Navajo Nation’s ponderosa pine forests.
by Pynes, Patrick Gordon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2000.

The American Indian Movement: The potential of a counter narrative.
by Segal, Michaly Dror, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2000.

‘Indian-made’: Sovereignty and the work of identification.
by Barker, Joanne Marie, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 2000.

The captivated self: Hybridity, the carnivalesque, and the cultural labor of subject formation in three American captivities.
by Dickinson, Philip A., PhD
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

‘Our Japanese citizens:’ A study of race, class, and ethnicity in three Japanese American communities in Santa Barbara County, 1900-1960.
by Haldan, Kent Edward, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2000.

Rehabilitating the native: Hawaiian blood quantum and the politics of race, citizenship, and entitlement.
by Kauanui, Josette Kehaulani, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 2000.

Archaeological investigations at the Spanish colonial mission of Espiritu Santo de Zuniga (41VT11), Victoria County, Texas.
by Walter, Tamra Lynn, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

Architecture

The morning star: It is bright. Tawennawetah teyohswathe: Traditional ways of knowing and cultural responsibility. A prayer for recovery and a spiritual explanation of the process for receiving duties on behalf of oneself and all the people.
by Woodworth, William Vernon, PhD
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, 2001.

Professional pursuits: Career opportunities for women in the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
by Zipf, Catherine Welcome, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, 2001.

On the ground in Oakland: Women and institution building in an industrial city (California).
by Gutman, Marta Ruth, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2000.

Gendering the spaces of modernity: Women and public space in San Francisco, 1890-1915 (California).
by Sewell, Jessica Ellen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 2000.

Art History

Indian style: Primitivism, nationalism, and cultural sovereignty in twentieth-century American art
by Anthes, William Louis, Jr., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

Santos de Santa Fe: Mediators of family and faith, culture and place
by Moore, Patricia Elaine, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2000.

Painting the American Indian at the turn of the century: Joseph Henry Sharp and his patrons, William H. Holmes, Phoebe A. Hearst, and Joseph G. Butler, Jr.
by Watkins, Marie A., PhD
THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Robert Henri and the American Southwest: His work and influence (New Mexico).
by Leeds, Valerie Ann, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, 2000.

Meaning and function in Cheyenne and Arapaho tipis.
by Santina, Adrianne Alexandra, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2001.

Paradigms of collecting from ethnography to documenting the individual artists: Grace Nicholson and the art history of Native Northwestern California basketry during the Arts and Crafts period, 1880-1930.
by Cadge, Catie Anne, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (CANADA), 2001.

California Chicana collectives and the development of a liberatory artistic praxis in America.
by Huacuja Pearson, Judith L., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, 2000.

Canadian History

Who controls the hunt? Ontario’s Game Act, the Canadian government and the Ojibwa, 1800-1940.
by Calverley, David, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (CANADA), 1999.

Claiming the land: Indians, goldseekers, and the rush to British Columbia.
by Marshall, Daniel Patrick, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2000.

The captors’ narrative: Catholic women and their Puritan men on the early North American frontier, 1653-1760.
by Foster, William Henry, III, PhD
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 2000.

After Delgamuukw: Aboriginal oral tradition as evidence in aboriginal rights and title litigation.
by Simpkins, Maureen Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA), 2000.

Native sons of Rupert’s Land 1760 to the 1860s.
by Fuchs, Denise, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

Winning the war, winning the peace: The image of the ‘Indian’ in English-Canada, 1930-1948.
by Sheffield, Robert Scott, PhD
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 2000.

Anglican missionaries and governing the self: An encounter with Aboriginal peoples in Western Canada, 1820-1865.
by Peikoff, Tannis Mara, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA (CANADA), 2000.

Rural youth in transition: Growing up in Williams Lake, British Columbia, 1945-1975.
by Arruda, Antonio Filomeno, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2000.

Bootlegging and the borderlands: Canadians, Americans, and the Prohibition-era Northwest.
by Moore, Stephen Timothy, PhD
THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, 2000.

‘Trucking and trading with outsiders’: Blood Indian reserve integration into the southern Alberta economic environment, 1884-1939. A case of shared neighbourhoods.
by Regular, William Keith, PhD
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND (CANADA), 1999.

Canadian Literature

Gendered discourse and subjectivity in travel writing by Canadian women.
by Heaps, Denise Adele, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA), 2000.

Reflections on the coming of history: Revisiting the makings of a ‘Chinese Canadian’ identity and community.
by Koh, Karlyn Y-Mae, PhD
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY (CANADA), 1999.

Space and identity formation in twentieth-century Canadian realist novels: Recasting regionalism within Canadian literary studies.
by Chalykoff, Lisa Ann, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 2000.

Liberating domesticity: The American road narrative in film and fiction.
by Elliot, Lyn Elizabeth, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 2000.

Angles of vision: N. Scott Momaday, the Native American renaissance, and effect on American identity.
by Hostetler, Phyllis Karen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, 2000.

New ethnicities on the edge of time: Asian American visual media.
by Mimura, Glen Masato, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 2000.

Comparative Literature

Fields of wry: Serious laughter, humour, and nation in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American Fiction.
by Andrews, Jennifer Courtney Elizabeth, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA), 1998.

American eyes: Negotiation and culture in nineteenth-century travel narratives in the Americas.
by Cabanas Enriquez, Miguel Angel, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, 2000.

A feminism of their own: Escritoras mexicanas, Chicana writers and autochthonous feminisms.
by Calvin, Ritchie Lee, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK, 2000.

Mothers and daughters in Morrison, Tan, Marshall, and Kincaid.
by Chen, Shu-ling, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2000.

Storied voices in Native American texts: Harry Robinson, Thomas King, James Welch, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
by Chester, Blanca Schorcht, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA), 1999.

Native speakers: Locating early expressions of United States third world feminist discourse. A comparative analysis on the ethnographic and literary writing of Ella Cara Deloria and Jovita Gonzalez.
by Cotera, Maria Eugenia, PhD
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2001.

Becoming outsider: The Cold War, masculinity, and the Beat Generation.
by Falla, Jeffery Bjorn, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

The social construction of female selves in the fiction of Li Ang, Wang Anyi, and Amy Tan (Taiwan, China).
by Huang, Shu-ying, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 1999.

The production of white space: Adventures as spatial practice in Cooper, Richardson, and Boldrewood (James Fenimore Cooper, Major John Richardson, Ralph Boldrewood).
by Ivison, Douglas, PhD
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTREAL (CANADA), 2000.

“Analyze if you wish, but listen”: Aboriginal women’s lifestorytelling in Canada and Australia and the politics of gender, nation, aboriginality, and anti-racism.
by Kelly, Jennifer Gail, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA), 2000.

Haunted cartographies: Ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas. [Includes a discussion of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.]
by Lorenz, Johnny Anderson, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

Antonine Maillet and Louise Erdrich: Their counternarratives re/member the past.
by Lyons-Chase, Rosemary, DA
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, 2000.

From Spanish stage to California vineyards: The survival of the resilient simpleton.
by Mendez Montesinos, Delia Leticia, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

Within two worlds: A case for intra-American literature. [Considers Sandra Cisneros, Cristina García, Cormac McCarthy, Carlos Fuentes, and Isabel Allende as part of the study.]
by Metherd, Mary Swift, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

Frontier narratives, diasporic trajectories, and border cultures of the literatures of the Americas.
by Muthyala, John Sumanth, PhD
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 2001.

Translating the foreign in multicultural literatures. [Includes an application to Simon Ortiz, among others.].
by Pagan, Darlene Marie, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, 2000.

Cormac McCarthy at home and abroad: Translation, reception, interpretation.
by Prince, Lynn Alison, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 2000.

The alter-native: Other native and/or alternative literary and cultural representations of Pearl S. Buck, Eileen Chang, and Amy Tan (China).
by Wu, Meiling, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON, 2000.

Cultural Anthropology

Co-management in a landscape of resistance: Resource conflicts and decentralized wildlife management in rural Alaska.
by Spaeder, Joseph John, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, 2000.

Ideologies of Indianness in New Mexico, 1692-1820: Personhood and identity in the colonial encounter.
by Brown, Tracy Lynn, PhD
DUKE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

The Navajos and nature: Changing world and changing self.
by King, Beth Ellen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, 2000.

Youth-in-the-States: The Mvskoke Indian nation’s nineteenth-century higher education program (Oklahoma).
by Alexander-Starr, Myra Lois, PhD
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A study in culture, history, and the construction of identity (Montana).
by Buchholtz, Debra Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2000.

An investigation of creativity among the Kootenai Indian nation of the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana).
by Frank, Elaine Lynn, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, 2000.

Indian identity within the Indian community in northeast Oklahoma.
by Neal, Beverly Ellen, PhD
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Ceremony in miniature: Kiowa oral storytelling and narrative event.
by Palmer, Gus, Jr., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2001.

The returner: A First Nations autobiographical study. Understanding the causes of First Nations language decline and extinction from the perspective of a First Nations language worker.
by Kelly, John Medicine Horse, EdD
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

A comparative analysis of Matachines music and its history and dispersion in the American Southwest.
by Stephenson, Claude D., III, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2001.

Geography

Early settlement of a frontier community: The Platte Purchase, 1836-1850 (Missouri).
by Combs, H. Jason, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2000.

The shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) homeland in Indian territory, 1828-1907.
by Hurt, Douglas A., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2000.

Contested spaces: Representing borders and immigrant identities between the United States and Mexico.
by Mains, Susan Pamela, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, 2000.

Imaging the Plains: Photographs, photograph albums, and the Great Plains landscape, 1890-1930.
by Dando, Christina E., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2000.

A domesticated landscape: Native American plant cultivation on the northwest coast of North America (Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska).
by Deur, Douglas Eugene, PhD
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL
COLLEGE, 2000.

Public lands, community, and the politics of place: Exploring collaborative resource management in southern Colorado.
by Wilson, Randall Kent, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, 2000.

‘Thrilling and marvellous experiences’: Place and subjectivity in Canadian climbing narratives, 1885-1925.
by Kelly, Caralyn Jane, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO (CANADA), 2000.

A portrait of peaks and pilgrimage: Who climbs? (Colorado).
by Tobin, Dennis, PhD
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

The role of mother Earth in shaping the health of Anishinabek: A geographical exploration of culture, health, and place.
by Wilson, Kathleen Joan, PhD
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON (CANADA), 2001.

Prince Maximilian’s America: The narrated landscapes of a German explorer and naturalist (Maximilian, Prinz von Wied).
by Noll, Michael Gottfried, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, 2000.

Community, cows, and conservation: The Nature Conservancy in Colorado’s Yampa Valley.
by Pike, Elizabeth Joan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER, 2001.

Journalism

Postcards from the war: A rhetorical analysis of authorship and audience in Martha Gellhorns’ war-torn travel writing.
by Hinton, Marcie Lynn, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, 2000.

Alien language: Indian words. Mediation and representation in American Indian contemporary fiction.
by Ruff, Karen Sue Cooney, DA
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, 2000.

The unbreakable bond: Absent/present mothers and daughters in the fiction of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, and Daphne Merkin.
by Ghosh, Nabanita, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON, 2000.

Images against the sun: The monument in Willa Cather.
by Butler, Carol Ann, PhD
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

Border wars in curriculum: The role of history in Prairie School, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, 1830 to 1939.
by Bagg, Sharon Elizabeth Mayes, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY, 2000.

Kinship and convenants in the wilderness: Indians, Quakers and conversion to Christianity, 1675-1800.
by Gimber, Steven G., PhD
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, 2000.

The shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) homeland in Indian territory, 1828-1907.
by Hurt, Douglas A., PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, 2000.

The battle for Chavez Ravine: Public policy and Chicano community resistance in post war Los Angeles, 1945-1962.
by Lopez, Ronald William, II, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 1999.

‘Of all the gifts you gave me the most important one is that I belong’. The Sicilians: Chain migration, gender, and the construction of identity in Monterey, California, 1920-1999.
by McKibben, Carol Lynn, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 1999.

Club women of the three intermountain cities of Denver, Boise, and Salt Lake City between 1893 and 1929 (Colorado, Idaho, Utah).
by Carver, Sharon Snow, PhD
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 2000.

The de la Guerra family: Patriarchy and the political economy of California, 1800-1850.
by Pubols, Helen Louise, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2000.

In the age of exclusion: Race, religion and Chinese identity in the making of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, 1863-1943 (Mexico).
by Delgado, Grace Pena, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, 2000.

Diné Bikeyah: Environment, cultural identity, and gender in Navajo Country (Arizona).
by Weisiger, Marsha Lee, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON, 2000.

‘I hope we be a prosperous people’: Shoshone and Bannock incorporation, ethnic reorganization, and the ‘Indian way of living through’ (Idaho, Utah).
by Parsons-Bernstein, Justina W., PhD
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK,
2001.

El Pasoans: Life and society in Mexican El Paso, 1920-1945 (Texas).
by Ramirez, Manuel Bernardo, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, 2000.

Payne County and the Hooded Klan, 1921-1924 (Oklahoma).
by Showalter, James Lowell, PhD
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2000.

‘You will be bravest of all’: The Modoc Nation to 1909 (Oregon, California).
by Bales, Rebecca Anne, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2001.

God, grace, and government: Taylor and Mary Ealy in the American Southwest, 1874-1881 (New Mexico, Oklahoma).
by Cain, Ellen Marie, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2001.

Wartime on the homefront: Women in New Mexico, 1939-1945.
by James, Pamela Fielding, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, 2001.

From ‘Indian village’ to Minuteman missiles: Navajo Ordnance Depot in the American West (Arizona).
by Westerlund, John S., PhD
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY, 2001.

Preserving multiple-use management: The United States Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the struggle for Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain Country, 1911-1972.
by Dodd, Douglas W., PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, 2000.

The population of Spanish and Mexican Texas, 1716-1836.
by Meacham, Tina Laurel, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2000.

Grasslands grown: A twentieth-century sense of place on North America’s northern prairies and plains.
by Rozum, Molly Patrick, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, 2001.

Boosting Bohemia: Counterculture, development, and identity in the American West, 1900-1990.
by Walsh, Patrick John, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 2001.

Western resistance: Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale and the transformation of the Black freedom struggle in the American West (Lincoln Ragsdale).
by Whitaker, Matthew Corey, PhD
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2001.

Taking it to the streets: Representations of ethnicity and gender in San Francisco’s Chinese New Year festivals, 1953-2001 (California).
by Yeh, Chiou-ling, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, 2001.